CFA & THE SOCIETY

Giving education is making a good generation, a fearless, straightforward, self respected human race around the world. Building a nation can do so only transforming the youth to higher level of education. A Chinese proverb quote.. "Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime." Education gives self confidence.

What is Child Sponsorship?

Child sponsorship is one of the best ways to give children better lives and futures. Sponsoring a child through CFA is one of the most effective, inspiring and rewarding ways to help children. You’ll be doing much more than helping to meet children's basic needs – you’ll be helping to equip them for life. By bringing about lasting change in your sponsored child’s community, you’ll also be improving the lives of many other vulnerable children.

ABOUT CFA

CFA is a platform that enables you as an individual, CSR person, corporate volunteer to make a notable and effective difference in community development by partnering with deserving Charity NGO organizations.

OUR VISION

CFA envisages to create a consortium of deserving charity Non Government Organizations, Institutions & Individuals and bring them on a common platform. The platform would drive Social Reforms and Community Development whilst creating impact and awareness about the various social causes that delve deep in our society.

Our Promises to Children

CFA promises that we will work along with children, their parents and communities to ensure that

• Children are educated
• Children are healthy and well-nourished
• Children are aware of their basic rights
• Children participate in their own development

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

The girl child is unwelcome in most parts of our country. In many instances, she is prevented from being born and even if she manages to survive, there are several barriers that block her path to a life of equal opportunity. Today, there are millions of little girls in India who do not get proper healthcare, nutrition or education and who are vulnerable to exploitation. YOU can change this!

As per the census of Indian population, 99 million children have dropped out of school. There are 10.13 million child laborers between 5-14 years in India. Over the last 10 years crimes against children has increased 5 times.

ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY:

CFA is committed to high standards of accountability and transparency. The board of CFA pursues the highest standards through independent internal audit, statutory audit by reputed audit firm, robust design-based monitoring and periodic peer reviews.

At the grassroots, our partnership approach in working with community-based organisations ensures we are accountable, committed and responsive to children and their communities. It has always been CFA’s endeavor to convey a public image conforming to reality, and always to speak and act honestly. With grace of God, we intend continually to pursue excellence beyond compliance in all aspects of our work - governance, management, operations and administration.

CFA is also recognized by the Central Ministry, Government of India and receiving grant for the past one decade for various cultural activities.

OUR PERFORMANCE

Chennai Fine Arts is a not for profit organization promoting classical carnatic music for the past fifteen years. We have been organizing a number of concerts every year. Some of our concerts are based on select themes which focus on rare composers and compositions, exclusive instrumental music and encouraging young talents. We have also brought out ten publications on music. As an initiative to take music to the underprivileged children from rural areas, we organize a workshop every summer at Puducherry. Those being our core activities, we also focus on a few social activities. Our main interest is on the education sector. We choose children from the economically weaker section who cannot afford normal schooling and support them. We take care of their educational needs by means of paying their tuition fee and offering them financial support to buy books and other necessities. Complete support is extended until the child graduates and has a sustainable life of its own. The following is the list of students under our support.

S. No.	Name of the Student	Presently studying	Region and family background	Mode of support
1.	Kalaiazhagan	High school	Thiruvallur district – children of a Peon	Financial support to complete academic education right from primary schooling until graduation
2.	Kalaiarasan	Middle School
3.	Harini	High School
4.	Augash	Under graduation (Industrial mechanical training)	Thiruvallur district - Children of a security guard
5.	Hariprasad	Higher secondary
6.	Kavitha	Graduation (B.Com)	Chennai – Children of a flower vendor
7.	Jamuna	Under graduation (BCA)
8.	Nithyanandan	Graduation (Medicine – Dentist)	Chennai - Son of a street vendor
9.	Shanti	Higher Secondary	Sriperumbudur - Daughter of a single mother working as a house maid
10.	Mani	Under graduation (Music)	Thiruneermalai - Son of a deceased musician

The following students are underprivileged selected from rural areas of Puducherry who are availing financial support from CFA for academic education.

S. No.	Name of the Student	Presently studying	Mode of support
1.	Karunakaran	Primary School	Financial support to complete academic education right from primary schooling until graduation
2.	Ravi	Primary School
3.	Viswanathan	Primary School
4.	Samikannu	Primary School
5.	Vadivelu	High School
6.	Hamsavalli	High School
7.	Ramanan	High School
8.	Tamilselvan	High School
9.	Prema	Higher Secondary
10.	Bhavani	Higher Secondary

Music being our core area, we select a few promising students and provide them support to have advanced training in music from senior musicians. Music education chisels a child into a cultured person. In this area, we give assistance by means of donating musical instruments to the students and also by giving them a financial support by means of scholarship to pursue music education. The following students are under our support by means of scholarship.

S. No.	Name of the Student	Area of study	Region	Support
1.	Ganesh Sambasivan	Veena	Bangalore	Donation of instrument
2.	D. Rajeswaran	Nagaswaram	Chennai	Donation of instrument
3.	S. Kishore	Nagaswaram	Chennai	Donation of instrument
4.	Mohanakrishnan	Nagaswaram	Kundrathur	Donation of instrument
5.	Manjunath	Nagaswaram	Krishnagiri	Scholarship
6.	Karthikeyan	Tavil	Salem	Scholarship
7.	B Mani	Tavil	Chennai	Scholarship
8.	Venkatesan	Nagaswaram	Chennai	Scholarship
9.	Aravind Kaushik	Mrdangam	Puducherry	Scholarship
10.	Vijayasree	Arumukhanam	Puducherry	Scholarship
11.	Rajesh	Mrdangam	Chennai	Scholarship

The following students (in the age group of 15 - 25 years) are getting advanced training in music with our financial support. These students are under the tutelage of senior musicians in their respective stream of study - vocal or instrumental. (These students were selected based on invited applications).

S. No.	Name of the student	Region	Support
1.	S. Muthuraman	Bhuvanagiri	Financial support to learn music from renowned gurus, to buy musical instruments and other equipments until the students become graded artists with self-sustainable income.
2.	C. Gopal	Chennai
3.	D. Dillibabu	Chennai
4.	S. Mohanraj	Chennai
5.	V. Vignesh	Chennai
6.	B. Venkatesh	Chidambaram
7.	K. Ramakrishnan	Coimbatore
8.	R. Muthukumarasamy	Dharmapuri
9.	V. Prakash	Dharmapuri
10.	A. Meghanathan	Dindivanam
11.	P. Manikandan	Dindivanam
12.	B. Poovarasan	Kalpakkam
13.	A. Bheemeswara Rao	Kanchipuram
14.	J. Sivamanikandan	Kanchipuram
15.	P. Vimalraj	Kanchipuram
16.	S. Sethuraman	Kanchipuram
17.	V. Vignesh	Kanchipuram
18.	Y. Gowtham	Kanchipuram
19.	S. Nandeesh	Krishnagiri
20.	B. Muthukumar	Mayiladuthurai
21.	A. Jothibasu	Nagapattinam
22.	N. Vishnuvaradhan	Tharangambadi
23.	P. Arulmurugan	Theni
24.	P. Anandhan	Thiruvallur
25.	S. Sugumar	Thiruvallur
26.	T.R. Santhosh	Thiruvallur
27.	D. Sridhar	Thiruvannamalai
28.	S. Vediyappan	Thiruvannamalai
29.	V. Prasanth	Thiruvannamalai
30.	M. Balamurali	Thiruvarur
31.	S. Vimalkumar	Tiruvannamalai
32.	M. Selvakumar	Vellore
33.	R. Gopinath	Vellore
34.	S. Kamaraj	Villupuram

Our other activities include

• Helping economically weak veteran musicians by means of cash awards recognizing their past service and contribution to arts
• Providing food on various occasions to the under privileged students of the Adyar Music College
• Providing financial assistance to procure medicines and bedding requirements of the inmates of an old age home in the outskirts of Chennai.